Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI (Brian Merchant)

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6. Another problem is that consumers don't want to pay royalties for use...

The average consumer, be it a person ordering art or a graphic design for a family get together or a someone at mid-sized company looking to adapt a popular cartoon for a branding meme to use as a product (like pissing Calvin window stickers), don't believe the designer or artist should be paid beyond the sale of the initial art.
Royalties give the artist the time to be able to keep doing art between the performance or original sale. Most people don't realize that, nor do they understand the time and effort it takes to make something beautiful.